Data Modeller
UK

The median Data Modeller salary in the UK is £65,000 per year according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

The first table below provides salary benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 850 921 1111
Rank change year-on-year +71 +190 -207
Permanent jobs requiring a Data Modeller 34 54 131
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.034% 0.054% 0.080%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.036% 0.059% 0.084%
Number of salaries quoted 24 34 69
10th Percentile £48,777 £43,250 £52,000
25th Percentile £57,188 £53,000 £65,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £65,000 £56,000 £75,000
Median % change year-on-year +16.07% -25.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile £78,750 £69,688 £97,500
90th Percentile £88,000 £72,500 £120,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £70,576 £45,000 £62,500
% change year-on-year +56.83% -28.00% +16.28%

All Permanent IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all permanent IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of permanent jobs in our overall sample.

Permanent vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 94,627 91,047 156,403
% of permanent jobs with a recognized job title 94.71% 91.54% 96.08%
Number of salaries quoted 67,562 57,571 85,106
10th Percentile £28,500 £32,500 £32,500
25th Percentile £38,500 £45,000 £42,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £60,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £70,750 £80,000 £78,750
90th Percentile £90,000 £100,000 £95,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £53,000 £50,000
% change year-on-year -5.66% +6.00% +5.26%

Data Modeller
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Data Modeller in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Data Modeller in the UK

Data Modeller
Salary Trend

3-month moving average salary quoted in jobs citing Data Modeller.

Salary trend for Data Modeller in the UK

Data Modeller
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Data Modeller over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Data Modeller in the UK

Data Modeller
Top 13 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Data Modeller within the UK over the 6 months to 20 May 2024. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +67 28 £70,576 +26.03% 16
UK excluding London +9 25 £70,576 +56.83% 8
Work from Home +85 19 £65,000 +10.17% 9
South East +18 8 £85,000 +88.89% 4
London +76 7 £65,000 +16.07% 8
South West - 7 £79,038 -
Scotland -62 4 £58,750 -16.07%
North of England - 4 £62,500 - 2
North West - 2 £60,000 - 2
Yorkshire - 2 £67,788 -
West Midlands +13 1 £65,000 +13.04% 1
East of England +4 1 £45,000 +28.57%
Midlands -7 1 £65,000 +13.04% 1

Data Modeller Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 20 May 2024, Data Modeller job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all permanent job ads featuring Data Modeller in the job title.

1 31 (91.18%) Data Modelling
2 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
3 14 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
4 13 (38.24%) Finance
5 11 (32.35%) Data Quality
5 11 (32.35%) SQL
6 9 (26.47%) Data Governance
6 9 (26.47%) Data Architecture
7 8 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
7 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (23.53%) Analytics
7 8 (23.53%) Physical Data Model
8 7 (20.59%) ERwin
9 6 (17.65%) Banking
9 6 (17.65%) ETL
9 6 (17.65%) Reference Data
9 6 (17.65%) Kimball Methodology
9 6 (17.65%) Data Transformation
9 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
9 6 (17.65%) Data Strategy
10 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
10 5 (14.71%) Master Data Management
10 5 (14.71%) Inmon Methodology
10 5 (14.71%) Target Operating Model
10 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
10 5 (14.71%) JIRA
10 5 (14.71%) Degree
10 5 (14.71%) Agile
10 5 (14.71%) Azure
10 5 (14.71%) Confluence

Data Modeller Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 5 (14.71%) Confluence
1 5 (14.71%) SAS
Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 5 (14.71%) Azure
2 4 (11.76%) AWS
3 3 (8.82%) Azure Data Factory
3 3 (8.82%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (8.82%) GCP
3 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
4 2 (5.88%) Snowflake
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Neptune
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon S3
5 1 (2.94%) Azure Synapse Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (23.53%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (11.76%) Relational Database
3 3 (8.82%) BigQuery
3 3 (8.82%) Metadata
3 3 (8.82%) Power BI
3 3 (8.82%) RDBMS
3 3 (8.82%) Snowflake Schema
4 2 (5.88%) NoSQL
5 1 (2.94%) Amazon Athena
5 1 (2.94%) ArangoDB
5 1 (2.94%) Data Lake
5 1 (2.94%) Impala
5 1 (2.94%) Metadata Repository
5 1 (2.94%) Neo4j
5 1 (2.94%) OLAP
5 1 (2.94%) Power Query
5 1 (2.94%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 7 (20.59%) ERwin
2 5 (14.71%) JIRA
3 1 (2.94%) ER Studio
3 1 (2.94%) Git
3 1 (2.94%) Toad
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 13 (38.24%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Banking
4 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.94%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.82%) Kafka
2 1 (2.94%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Reference Data
2 2 (5.88%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.94%) Data Structures
3 1 (2.94%) Social Network
3 1 (2.94%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.88%) Windows
1 2 (5.88%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (91.18%) Data Modelling
2 14 (41.18%) Stakeholder Management
3 9 (26.47%) Data Architecture
3 9 (26.47%) Data Governance
4 8 (23.53%) Analytics
4 8 (23.53%) Physical Data Model
4 8 (23.53%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (17.65%) Data Strategy
5 6 (17.65%) Data Transformation
5 6 (17.65%) ETL
5 6 (17.65%) Kimball Methodology
5 6 (17.65%) Mentoring
6 5 (14.71%) Agile
6 5 (14.71%) Data Engineering
6 5 (14.71%) Inmon Methodology
6 5 (14.71%) Master Data Management
6 5 (14.71%) Target Operating Model
7 4 (11.76%) Conceptual Models
8 3 (8.82%) Data Lineage
8 3 (8.82%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 11 (32.35%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) Cypher
3 1 (2.94%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (2.94%) Gremlin
3 1 (2.94%) Java
3 1 (2.94%) Scala
Qualifications
1 5 (14.71%) Degree
2 3 (8.82%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.88%) CFA
3 2 (5.88%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.94%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (32.35%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.94%) QA
Vendors
1 5 (14.71%) IBM
1 5 (14.71%) SAP
1 5 (14.71%) Teradata
2 2 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.94%) Cloudera
3 1 (2.94%) Databricks